Whether due to culture, laws, privatized insurance coverage or general cost of living, Americans may just be among the hardest-working employees in the world.
According to the global Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Americans work 1,767 hours a year — 435 more hours than German workers and 400 more hours than workers in the U.K. Additionally, while 134 countries have laws that set a maximum amount of work hours per week, the U.S. does not.
“There are different work cultures in every country, which is why some might work harder than others,” says Jill Gonzalez, an analyst at WalletHub. “And in the U.S., work provides healthcare insurance, and the harder you work, the more you can save or invest for your future.”
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Yet some cities are clocking more hours than others. WalletHub ranked cities across the U.S. that represent America’s demanding work culture, scoring cities out of 100. The rankings were based on direct work factors like average workweek hours, employment rate and share of workers with unused vacation times, as well as indirect work factors like average commute time, share of workers with multiple jobs and average leisure time per day.
Here are the 20 hardest-working cities in America, according to
